On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:20 -0600, Anthony Messina wrote: > you can also check out gopchop at http://gopchop.org/ to see if that > might help you Have you tried this, and how did you install it? It depends on mpeg2dec, so went looking for it, and found it as a .tgz on sourceforge. It fails to compile. Actually, it fails the ./configure before compiling, so I don't know if it does compile: e.g. configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check For what it's worth, my interests are different than the original poster: Tidying up my own recordings from a domestic DVD video recorder. You either miss the start of what you want to record, or end up with extra rubbish before and after what you want. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.